• DECACHINNATE
vb. 1623 obs. – to scorn
• DECACUMINATE
vb. 1656 obs. – to take off the top of anything
• DECACUMINATED
adj. 1727 obs. – having the tops lopped off
• DECAD
n. 1. 1616 – the number ten
n. 2. 1679 – a decade
• DECADAL
adj. 1753 – relating to the number ten; belonging to a decade or a period of ten years
• DECADARCH
n. 1794 – in Greek antiquity: a commander of ten
• DECADARCHY
n. 1849 – in Greek antiquity: a ruling body of ten
• DECADE
vb. a1500 Sc. obs. – to fall down, to fail
• DECADESCENT
adj. 1858 nonce word – beginning or tending to decay
• DECADIC
adj. 1838 – belonging to the system of counting by tens
• DECAID
vb. a1500 Sc. obs. – to fall down, to fail
• DECALCATION
n. 1827 – a treading or trampling down or hard
• DECALOGIST
n. 1650 rare – one who expounds the decalogue or Ten Commandments
• DECALOGUE
n. 1382 – the Ten Commandments collectively as a body of law
• DECALVATION
n. 1650 obs. – a making bald by removal of hair
• DECAN
n. 1569 obs. – a chief or ruler of ten
• DECANT
vb. 1674 obs. – to sing or say over and over again; to repeat often
• DECANTATE
adj. 1620 obs. – often repeated
vb. 1. 1542 obs. – to sing or say over and over again; to repeat often
vb. 2. 1659 obs. – to sing or speak often
• DECAPILLATED
adj. 1727 rare – having the hair pulled or fallen off
• DECAPILLATORY
adj. 1839 nonce word – pert. to the removal of hair from the head or face
• DECAPITABLE
adj. 1843 rare – that can be decapitated
• DECAPITATION
n. 1869 – in US politics: summary dismissal from office
• DECAPULATE
vb. 1623 obs. – to pour out from one thing to another
• DECAPULATION
n. 1681 obs. – a pouring off
• DECARCH
n. 1656 – in Greek antiquity: one of a ruling body of ten
• DECARCHY
n. a1638 – in Greek antiquity: a ruling body of ten
• DECARD
vb. 1605 obs. – to reject, to set aside, to get rid of, to dismiss
• DECART
vb. a1572 Sc. obs. – to discard
• DECAS
n. 1393 obs. – decay, ruin
• DECASS
vb. 1579 obs. rare – to discharge, to dismiss, to cashier
• DECATUR
n. 1910s US gambling usage – the point of 8 in craps dice
• DECAUDALIZE
vb. 1840 nonce word – to deprive of the tail
• DECAUDATE
vb. 1864 – to deprive of the tail
• DECAY
n. 1. 1535 obs. – downfall, destruction, ruin
n. 2. 1546 obs. – failure of payment or rent; arrears
n. 3. 1636 obs. – falling off in quantity, volume, etc.; dwindling, decrease
vb. 1. 1489 obs. – to fall off or decrease in number, volume, etc.; to dwindle away
vb. 2. 1529 obs. – to cause to fall off or deteriorate
vb. 3. 1536 obs. – to waste or ruin physically; to disintegrate, to dilapidate; to bring to decay or ruin
• DECAYED
adj. 1960s Amer. sl. – drunk, fully intoxicated
• DECAYS
n. 1582 obs. – dilapidations; ruined remains, ruins, debris, detritus; rarely in singular
• DECE
adj. 1970s US sl. – pleasant, amenable
• DECEASE
n. 1. c1330 – departure from life; death
n. 2. 1513 obs. – mortality, slaughter
• THE DECEASED
n. L15 euphemism – a dead person
• DECEASEFUL CARD
n. 1967 Amer. dial.. African-American usage – a sympathy card
• DECEASE THIS WORLD
vb. 1515 obs. – to die
• DECEASING
n. 1591 obs. – death, decease
• DECEASURE
n. 1580 obs. rare – decease, death
• DECEDE
vb. 1655 obs. – to depart; to give place, to yield
• DECEDENT
adj. 1727 obs. – departing, going away
n. L16 – a deceased person; a corpse
• DECEIT
vb. 1484 obs. rare – to construct deceitfully, to forge a document
• DECEITEOUS
adj. 1481 obs. rare – deceitful
• DECEITEOUSLY
adv. 1481 obs. rare – deceitfully
• DECEIVABLE
adj. 1303 obs. – deceitful, deceptive
• DECEIVABLENESS
n. 1. 1526 obs. – deceitfulness, deceit; deceptiveness
n. 2. 1674 rare – liability to be deceived; fallibility
• DECEIVABLY
adv. 1387 obs. – deceitfully, fraudulently, falsely
• DECEIVANCE
n. c1330 obs. – deceit, deception
• DECEIVANT
adj. 1393 obs. rare – deceiving, deceitful, deceptive
n. 1393 obs. rare – a deceiver
• DECEIVE
vb. 1. a1300 obs. – to be or prove false to, to play false, to deal treacherously with; to betray
vb. 2. c1330 obs. – to cheat, to overreach; to defraud
vb. 3. 1591 obs. – to beguile, to wile away time, tediousness, etc.
• DECEIVERY
n. 1842 Sc. – deceit; a habit or course of deceit
• DECEMBERLY
adj. 1765 obs. – resembling December in dreariness and darkness
• DECEMNOVENAL
adj. 1588 obs. – of nineteen years
• DECEMNOVENARIAN
n. 1863 – a man of the Nineteenth Century
• DECEMNOVENARIANIZE
vb. 1890 – to act the decemnovenarian
• DECEMPEDAL
adj. 1656 obs. – ten feet in length
• DECEMPLEX
adj. Bk1897 – tenfold
• DECENCE
n. 1678 obs. – decency
• DECENCY
n. 1567 obs. – appropriateness or fitness to the circumstances or requirements of the case; fitness, seemliness, propriety
• DECENER
n. 1555 obs. – one in command of ten soldiers
• DECENNAL
adj. 1648 obs. – pert. to a period of ten years
• DECENNALIAN
adj. 1794 obs. – pertaining to a period of ten years
• DECENNARY
adj. 1855 – pert. to a period of ten years
n. 1822 – a period of ten years
• DECENNIAD
n. 1864 – a space of ten years, a decade
• DECENNIAL
adj. 1. 1656 – pert. to a period of ten years
adj. 2. 1728 – of persons: holding office for ten years
n. 1889 – a tenth anniversary or its celebration
• DECENNIALLY
adv. 1874 – every ten years
• DECENNIUM
n. 1685 – a space of ten years, a decade
• DECENNOVAL
adj. 1681 obs. – pert. to nineteen years
• DECENNOVARY
adj. 1694 obs. – pert. to nineteen years
• DECENNOVENNAL
adj. 1686 obs. – pert. to nineteen years
• DECENT
adj. 1. M16 – chaste
adj. 2. 1600 obs. – comely, handsome
adj. 3. 1696 – dressed; clothed appropriately for the occasion
adj. 4. 18C – tolerable, fairly good, acceptable
adj. 5. L18 – kind, accommodating, likeable
adj. 6. 1940s sl. – an intensifier, both positive and negative
adj. 7. 1960s US college sl. – very good, excellent
• DECENTISH
adj. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – mediocre
• DECENTLY
adv. 1552 obs. – suitably; fittingly
• DECENTNESS
n. 1561 obs. – decency, propriety
• DECENT SHAKE
n. 1. E19 – equable treatment
n. 2. E19 – a fair or acceptable situation
• DECEPER
vb. 1547 obs. – to dissever, to separate
• DECEPERATION
n. a1450 obs. – separation, severance
• DECEPTIBILITY
n. 1665 obs. – capacity for being deceived
• DECEPTIBLE
adj. 1646 obs. – apt to be deceived
• DECEPTIONAL
adj. 1830 rare – deceptive, deluding, illusory
• DECEPTIONIST
n. 1883 – one who performs feats of illusion; a juggler
• DECEPTIOUS
adj. 1606 obs. rare – that tends to deceive, cheat, or mislead; deceptive, deluding, illusory
• DECEPTIOUSLY
adv. 1797 obs. – in such a way as to deceive, deceitfully, delusively
• DECEPTITIOUS
adj. 1827 rare – of a deceptive kind or character; deluding, illusory
• DECEPTIVITY
n. 1843 – deceptiveness; a thing of deceptive character
• DECEPTOR
n. 1484 obs. – a deceiver
• DECEPTORY
adj. c1430 obs. – apt to deceive, deceptive, deluding, illusory
• DECEPTRESS
n. 1880 rare – a female deceiver
• DECEPTURE
n. 1855 obs. – fraud, deceit
• DECERN
vb. 1. c1425 obs. – to decide, to determine a matter disputed or doubtful
vb. 2. a1535 obs. – to discern; to distinguish or separate by their differences
• DECERNMENT
n. 1586 obs. – decision; discernment, discrimination
• DECERP
vb. 1531 obs. – to pluck off or out; to extract, to excerpt; to tear apart
• DECERPT
vb. a1612 obs. – to pluck off or out; to extract, to excerpt
• DECERPTIBLE
adj. 1727 obs. rare – that may be cropped or plucked off
• DECERPTION
n. 1657 obs. rare – a cropping off, or pulling away; that which is plucked off
• DECERTATION
n. 1635 obs. – contention, strife, contest; dispute
• DECESS
n. 1854 rare – decrease, diminution
• DECESSION
n. 1606 rare – departure, withdrawal; secession; deviation from a given standard; decrease, diminution
• DECESSOR
n. 1647 obs. – a predecessor
• DECHARM
vb. a1600 obs. – to undo the effect of a charm or spell; to disenchant
• DECHAY
vb. 1549 obs. – to decay
• DECHE
vb. a1000 obs. – to daub; to smear
• DECHEERFUL
adj. 1607 obs. nonce word – void of cheerfulness, melancholy, dejected
• DECIDE
vb. 1. 1579 obs. rare – to cut off, to separate
vb. 2. 1657 obs. rare – to fall off
• DECIDEMENT
n. a1625 obs. rare – decision
• DECIDENCE
n. 1. 1646 obs. – falling off, a shedding, as of deer antlers
n. 2. 1684 obs. – falling off in strength, vigour, etc.; decline, a becoming worse
• DECIDENCY
n. 1651 obs. rare – falling, failing, subsidence
• DECIDENT
adj. 1674 obs. – falling
• DECIDUARY
adj. 1871 rare – deciduous
• DECIDUITY
n. 1846 rare – deciduousness
• DECIDUOUS
adj. 1. 1656 obs. – falling down or off
adj. 2. 1791 obs. rare – sinking, declining
adj. 3. 1811 – fleeting, transitory; perishing or disappearing after having served its purpose
• DECIM
n. 1638 obs. – a tenth part, tithe
• DECIMAL
adj. 1641 obs. – relating to tithes
• DECIMATE
n. 1641 obs. – tithing, tithe
vb. 1. 1656 obs. – to exact a tenth or a tithe from; to tax to the amount of one-tenth
vb. 2. 1749 obs. – to divide into tenths, to divide decimally
• DECIMATION
n. 1549 – the exaction of tithes, or of a tax of one-tenth
• DECIMATOR
n. 1673 obs. – an exactor or receiver of tithes, or of taxes to the amount of one-tenth
• DECIMESTRIAL
adj. 1842 rare – consisting of ten months
• DECINARY
adj. 1650 obs. – divisible by ten
• DECIPHER
n. a1670 obs. – description, delineation
vb. 1. 1528 obs. – to find out, to discover, to detect
vb. 2. 1529 obs. – of actions, outward signs, etc.: to reveal, to make known, to indicate
vb. 3. a1572 obs. – to represent verbally or pictorially; to describe, to delineate, to portray, to depict
vb. 4. 1586 obs. – to represent or express by some kind of written character, cipher, or figure
• DECIPHERAGE
n. 1851 nonce word – deciphering
• DECIPHERATION
n. 1838 nonce word – deciphering
• DECIPHERESS
n. a1763 rare – a female who deciphers
• DECIRCINATE
vb. 1656 obs. – to round off, to form into a circle; to draw a circle with a pair of compasses
• DECIRCINATION
n. 1731 obs. – forming into a circle
• DECISE
vb. 1538 obs. – to decide
• DECISION
n. 1584 obs. – a cutting off, separation
• DECISIONAL
adj. 1883 rare – of the nature of a decision; decisive, conclusive
• DECISOR
n. 1563 obs. – one who decides causes or controversies; a decider, an arbitrator
• DECISORY
adj. 1611 obs. rare – decisive
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